FALL OF ROME- MIDDLE AGES BORN

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FALL OF ROME- MIDDLE AGES BORN

• HISTORIC OVERVIEW

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MIDDLE AGES FOLLOW ROME

• Middle Ages is the name given to 1000 years of
  European (from Europe) history
• Also called Medieval times from Latin words
  meaning, middle and age

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Rome
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TIMELINE

• Began after
  Fall of Rome
• Lasted till
  Renaissance
  (Rebirth)
• 
  Death of Alaric
• From about 476 to about 1500

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HOW DID ROME FALL?

• 200CE Rome HUGE
• Stretched all across Europe and North Africa
• Capital Rome plus many other
  great cities
• Great civilization laws,
  government, architecture,
  technology

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ROME SPLITS

• Empire no longer manageable
• Wars on several fronts
• Empire split in two by Diocletian in 284
• Empire in two parts West and East
• 330 CE Constantine built Constantinople the new
  capital in the East

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ROME BECOMES CHRISTIAN

• 313-Christianity legal
• Emperor Constantine converted
• 391-Christianity state religion
• Pagan Rome became Christian Europe
• 
  Constantine

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GRADUAL TRANSFORMATION OF ROMAN EMPIRE

• Transformed in 3 big ways
• Gradually became Christian, not Pagan
• German settlers assimilated into Rome and by 476
  Western empire controlled by German kings
• Eastern Empire became Byzantine Empire, an lost
  much land to Muslim Turks

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3 HEIRS OF ROMAN EMPIRE

1. West
2. Byzantine Empire
3. Islam

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WEST, BYZANTINE, ISLAM

• Economic
• Islam prosperous, much trade, merchants,
  professionals
• Byzantine empire revived after wars, trade,
  Constantinople important, farms productive
• West rich lived well, most people struggling,
  land unproductive

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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WEST, BYZANTINE, ISLAM

• Political
• Byzantine centralized
• Empire had both spiritual and worldly
  power, appointed Patriarch, head of navy and
  army
• Islam also centralized
• West fragmented many small, often warring
  kingdoms

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WESTS GRADUAL TRANSITION INTO MIDDLE AGES

• Period after the fall of Rome called Early Middle
  Ages
• Period of war, confusion and chaos
  Alaric Hannibal Atilla the
  Hun

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